An issue was discovered in Cinnamon 1.9.2 through 3.8.6. The cinnamon-settings-users.py GUI runs as root and allows configuration of (for example) oth...

References

• advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00011.html
• patch https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083067
• patch https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/7683